‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ mom’s $30M lawsuit lashes out at media

There’s yet another scandal involving TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras. And this time, it’s a pageant mom on the offensive.

Parents on the reality show about child beauty pageants have often been accused of sexualizing their kids (one tot was dressed like a prostitute). But one mom blames the media, and she has sued several outlets, including TMZ and the Huffington Post, for $30 million, E! Online reports.

Susanna Barrett has filed a $30 million libel suit against the parent companies of TMZ, the Huffington Post, London’s Daily Mail for their allegedly “brazen attempts to sexualize” her 5-year-old daughter.

Barrett points to a TMZ video showing little Isabella singing LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It in a restaurant. The New York lawsuit says the video and reports that “blew the entire performance out of proportion” aim to turn her daughter into a sex object and are putting the child in danger.

Isabella Barrett did not act or portray herself sexually, erotically or provocatively; she was not ‘gyrating’ at a ‘nightclub’ or singing ‘about her sex appeal,’ ” Barrett’s complaint states. “She did not understand the concept of sex, let alone ‘sex appeal’ and could not have been singing about her own sex appeal.”

Below is the video, courtesy of YouTube. Do you think Isabella’s mom has a case?